Ubuntu Server Administration
Course Code: UBSA
Duration: 4 days
Ubuntu Server Administration Course Overview
This instructor led Ubuntu Server Administration training course is designed to teach the key configuration, administration, networking, security, and performance tasks required on an Ubuntu Server.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Course Objectives
On completion of this course the delegate will have the required technical knowledge to administer Ubuntu Linux Server within the enterprise. They will have gained practical experience of the key configuration, administration, networking, security, and performance aspects of Ubuntu Linux Server.
Who will the Course Benefit?
The Ubuntu Server Administration training course is suitable for Ubuntu System Administrators, Programmers and other technical IT staff who need to acquire administration knowledge of the key configuration, administrative, networking, security and performance tasks required on an Ubuntu Linux operating system within the enterprise. An ideal course for anyone who will be working in an environment using Ubuntu Linux Server.
Skills Gained
The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:
- Performing command line administrative tasks
- Managing users and groups
- Configuring extended permissions and sudo
- Understanding the Linux I/O Stack
- Comparison, creation and management of Linux file systems
- Configuring file system labels and UUIDs
- Understanding RAID levels
- Creating and managing RAID devices
- Configuring Logical Volume Management (LVM)
- Resizing LVM devices
- Configuring and managing ZFS Pools
- Modifying ZFS Pools and viewing statistics
- Managing software packages and Snaps
- Basics of the Vim editor
- Further Vim Functions and the Vim Environment
- Understanding systemd and the Startup Script Framework
- Creating and managing Systemd units and services
- Changing run levels and system shutdown
- Managing processes and job scheduling
- IPv4 and IPv6 networking
- Understanding and configuring network services
- Capturing and analysing network packets
- Configuring local and network time
- Modifying language, keyboard and time zone settings
- Configuring system logging and rotating logs
- Querying and configuring the Journal
- Creating backups and compressing data
- Cloning drives and devices
- Configuring virtualisation and virtual systems
- Installing and creating Docker containers
- Configuring the Ubuntu Uncomplicated Firewall
- Creating and managing UFW applications
- Managing AppArmor
- Creating and modifying AppArmor profiles
Ubuntu Server Administration Training Course
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: USER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
- User Private Group scheme
- Files used in creating a user
- Managing groups
- Password administration
- The Bash Shell environment
- Extended permissions
- Configuring Privilege Delegation via sudo
- Monitoring login activity
- Exercise
Session 2: FILE SYSTEM OPERATIONS
- File system types
- The Linux I/O stack
- MBR vs GPT partition tables
- Partitioning a disk
- Comparison of Linux file systems
- Creating XFS and Btrfs file systems
- Displaying disk usage
- Mounting and unmounting file systems
- Configuring labels and UUIDs
- Exercise
Session 3: RAID
- An overview of RAID levels
- Creating, managing and modifying RAID arrays
- Creating Nested RAID
- Failing and replacing drives
- Exercise
Ubuntu Server Administration Training Course
Session 4: LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGEMENT
- Logical Volume Management overview
- Viewing LVM information
- Configuring LVM
- Resizing Logical Volumes
- The role of the Device Mapper
- Exercise
Session 5: ZFS
- ZFS overview
- Configuring, managing and modifying ZFS Pools
- Tuning ZFS
- Viewing ZFS statistics
- ZFS Snapshots and Clones
- Exercise
Session 6: SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT
- The Debian Package Manager
- Managing packages with apt
- Managing software Snaps
- Exercise
Session 7: INTRODUCTION TO THE VIM EDITOR
- Vim overview
- Basic functions
- The language of Vim
- Further Vim functions
- The Vim Environment
- Vim quick reference
- Exercise
Ubuntu Server Administration Training Course
Session 8: SYSTEM INITIALISATION
- Managing systemd
- The Startup Script Framework
- Starting and stopping services dynamically
- Creating Systemd services, timers and mount units
- Running transient units
- Changing run levels and shutdown
- Exercise
Session 9: PROCESS MONITORING AND SCHEDULING
- Process monitoring tools
- Scheduling processes with at and cron
- The cron configuration files
- crontab command options
- Scheduling processes with anacron
- Exercise
Session 10: LINUX NETWORKING
- Networking overview
- Network services and port numbers
- Configuring IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
- Resolving hostnames and DNS
- Secure communications via SSH
- Capturing and analysing network packets
- Configuring Network Time
- Exercise
Session 11: LOCALISATION
- Localisation overview
- Locale variables
- Converting character sets and encoding
- Configuring the locale and keymap
- Configuring the system and user time zone
- Exercise
Ubuntu Server Administration Training Course
Session 12: CONFIGURING LINUX LOGGING
- Configuring rsyslog
- Configuring remote logging
- Testing using logger
- Managing logs with logrotate
- Basic and advanced journal queries
- Configuring the journal
- Exercise
Session 13: BACKUP AND RESTORE
- Archiving and restoring with tar
- Cloning devices with dd
- Compressing files
- Transferring files with rsync
- A comparison of backup programs
- Exercise
Session 14: VIRTUALISATION AND CONTAINERS
- Configuring KVM virtualisation
- Installing and managing virtual systems
- Understanding Linux containers
- Pulling and running Docker containers
- Exercise
Session 15: UBUNTU SECURITY
- The Uncomplicated Firewall
- Creating and managing UFW applications
- Configuring AppArmor
- Creating and modifying AppArmor profiles
- Exercise
- Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
- Course content is structured as sessions, this does not strictly map to course timings. Concepts, content and practicals often span sessions.
Requirements
This Ubuntu Server Administration course assumes good knowledge of the Linux operating system in an Enterprise environment to the level covered in the Linux Introduction course. Alternatively, relevant experience of Linux or Unix servers is required, preferably within an enterprise environment.
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Duration: 4 days
Price: £1,995.00 exc. VAT
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